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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

I heard a kind of splashy noise coming from the bathroom. I went to investigate.

It's kinda hard to see just how much water is all over the toilet seat unless your monitor is tipped just so.

The floor was pretty well flooded too. (Again, I had a hard time capturing this on film. Take my word for it.)

And there was Brooklyn just cleaning away with my Swiffer duster. The Swiffer duster she'd repeatedly dipped into the toilet. The soaking wet, dripping duster that she was using to mop the bathroom floor, walls, sink, toilet, and tub. (Brooklyn was playing dress-up with Lexi's clothes)

How cute is Brooklyn? Very - just be thankful it wasn't a "dirty" toilet bowl!

So many comments on yesterdays entry...God bless Lexi for her quick thinking! He was surely watching out for her as she was watching out for Clay! Don't be hard on yourself - try as we might we can't be next to them every second. When my youngest was 9 months old, he was bitten on the cheek by our (up until then) very mild mannered dog. Prior to he had never bitten anyone or even growled. I was 2 feet away when it happened & hated myself for months.

Dawn, your bathroom ROCKS! I love it! I may have to use some of it as an inspiration for our eventual remodel. One day I'll post pictures of our brass, pink, black and white bathroom. With a decent toilet (we replaced that part).

Better cleaning than making dirty? She's picking up something from Mommy!

Look at it this way...she wants to be just like her fabulous mommy who she sees cleaning the bathroom and toilet! What a compliment! If it were me, though, I think I'd just quit cleaning altogether so they never learn those bad habits!!!

So cute...my 4 year old decided to wash towels the other day...she took all the freshly laundered towels she could find and dumbed them in the bathtub with her. Then she climbed in and swished them around...got a couple out and cleaned the bathroom. Thankfully nothing went in the potty.

Who says that Swiffer Dusters are "not for use on wet surfaces" (it says so on the box)?!!! You should email the company your adorable pictures of a 2 year old using their product just to prove that they can, indeed, be used wet (how much cleaning got done, however, may be another story...).

I also second those who are loving your bathroom. I'd kill for that tub, and the tile is beautiful!

This happens all the time at my house... I've finally gotten to the point that I keep the bathroom door closed at all times (and my bathrug hanging on the shower rod drying from the last "cleaning spree"). The pictures of brooklyn cleaning are simply adorable though!

My son tried to help many times. The most vivid being the time he got chocolate on his shirt and decided to wash it for me. Of course his makeshift washing machine was our toilet. Then he took a soaked shirt and THWACKED! it on the floor. So cute but I didn't take any pictures. The chocolate on the shirt was from the cake at my brother's wedding reception. Yep, he made such a mess we had to leave the reception.

LOVE your bathroom! At least your little Brooklyn didn't then slip on the wet tile and smash her teeth thru her bottom lip like a certain son of mine did . . . twice. It's fun explaining THAT one to the ER people. Especially when you have to do it again a month later :)

If he wasn't two at the time I would have thought it was a plot to see how many times he could do it before Child Protective Services came to visit!

Our youngest, Mister Crinkle-Nose, like to dip his hands in the toilet and play in it. We keep the door closed in the bathroom, but sometimes Miss Cutie-Pie decides to "clean up" with him and uses the plunger to "unplug" the toilet (it wasn't plugged in the first place.) It creates a nice puddle in which they can both play in the "rain".

I did that once to my parents when I was little. I filled up a bucket with water, dumped it out onto THE WOOD FLOOR, and then started to scrub and wash the floor. Of course they come downstairs and see it and I'm all "lookie, I'm helping clean!" and they couldn't be mad at me. Oops.